WAR DEPARTMENT TECHNICAL MANUAL
TM-E 30-480

This manual supersedes TM 30-480, 21 September 1942.


HANDBOOK ON JAPANESE MILITARY FORCES

WAR DEPARTMENT • 1 OCTOBER 1944


RESTRICTED. DISSEMINATION OF RESTRICTED MATTER.--The information contained in restricted documents and the essential characteristics of restricted material may be given to any person known to be in the service of the United States and to persons of undoubted loyalty and discretion who are cooperating in Government work, but will not be communicated to the public or to the press except by authorized military public relations agencies. (See also par. 23b, AR 380-5, 15 Mar 1944.)


United States Government Printing Office

Washington : 1944


TM-E 38-480
1 OCT 44
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CONTENTS


CHAPTER I. RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING.
  Section I. General 1
  Section II. Conscription system 2
  Section III. Procurement of officers 4
  Section IV. Training 5
  Section V. Promotion, pay and awards 7
  Section VI. Morale, discipline, and efficiency 8
CHAPTER II. JAPANESE MILITARY SYSTEM.
  Section .
CHAPTER III. FIELD ORGANIZATION.
  Section I. Major organizations 16
  Section II. Arms (nondivisional) 44
  Section III. Services (nondivisional) 49
  Section IV. Military Intelligence 52
  Section V. Reorganization 52
CHAPTER IV. JAPANESE AIR SERVICE.
  Section .
CHAPTER V. SPECIAL FORCES.
  Section I. Naval land forces 76
  Section II. Task forces and special defense units 80
CHAPTER VI. JAPANESE MILITARY POLICE.
  Section .
CHAPTER VII. TACTICS OF THE JAPANESE ARMY.
  Section .
CHAPTER VIII. SUPPLY, MOVEMENTS, AND EVACUATION.
  Section .
CHAPTER IX. WEAPONS.
  Section I. Introduction 187
  Section II. Infantry weapons 187
  Section III. Artillery 220
  Section IV. Tanks and armored cars 238
  Section V. Chemical warfare 256
CHAPTER X. EQUIPMENT.
  Section .
CHAPTER XI. UNIFORMS, PERSONAL EQUIPMENT, AND INSIGNIA
CHAPTER XII. CONVENTIONAL SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS
  Section .
CHAPTER XIII. MILITARY TERMS AND CHARACTERS
APPENDIX SUPPLEMENTAL DATA 400

Figure 1. Japanese infantry soldier.



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